We’ve only been getting about an hour of sun a day, lately, first thing in the morning. So I went out for a bike ride. I’ve always liked getting outside first thing on New Year’s Day. In touch with Gaia.
My neighbor Gunnar came along, but we made Slug the dog stay home.
I like the patterns that rain water makes flowing down the street. I’ve always wanted to program this as a cellular automaton. I think you’d need a 2D rule, with each cell holding a water-depth variable and two flowspeed variables, one for downhill, one for across to the next cell. Possibly one speed would do.
You get these nice moving fronts, with hints of Zhabotinsky scrolls. Would be a good thesis project for someone.
Here’s a live “Christmas” tree we passed.
I love California. On to the new year.
Rudy just showed up and told me about a funny site called Doing a Lynndie. It has pictures of people posing like the notorious soldier Lynndie England.
You have to grin, have a cigarette in your mouth, point with one hand and make a thumbs-up gesture with the other.
Laughter is the best medecine, as they used to say in Readers Digest — both for the individual and for the hive-mind.